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195:2.6 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism Stoic] and his sturdy [[appeal]] to " [[nature]] and [[conscience]] " had only the better [[prepared]] all [[Rome]] to [[receive]] [[Christ]], at least in an [[intellectual]] sense. The [[Roman]] was by [[nature]] and [[training]] a lawyer; he [[revered]] even the [[laws]] of [[nature]]. And now, in [[Christianity]], he [[discerned]] in the laws of nature the [[laws]] of [[God]]. A people that could produce [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero Cicero] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergil Vergil] were ripe for [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenization Hellenized] [[Christianity]].

195:2.6 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism Stoic] and his sturdy [[appeal]] to " [[nature]] and [[conscience]] " had only the better [[prepared]] all [[Rome]] to [[receive]] [[Christ]], at least in an [[intellectual]] sense. The [[Roman]] was by [[nature]] and [[training]] a lawyer; he [[revered]] even the [[laws]] of [[nature]]. And now, in [[Christianity]], he [[discerned]] in the laws of nature the [[laws]] of [[God]]. A people that could produce [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero Cicero] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergil Vergil] were ripe for [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenization Hellenized] [[Christianity]].

195:2.7 And so did these [[Roman|Romanized]] [[Greeks]] force both [[Jews]] and [[Christians]] to philosophize their religion, to [[co-ordinate]] its [[ideas]] and [[systematize]] its [[ideals]], to adapt [[religious]] [[practices]] to the existing current of life. And all this was enormously helped by [[translation]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_scriptures Hebrew scriptures] into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Greek] and by the later recording of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint New Testament in the Greek tongue].

195:2.7 And so did these [[Roman|Romanized]] [[Greeks]] force both [[Jews]] and [[Christians]] to philosophize their religion, to [[co-ordinate]] its [[ideas]] and [[Systems theory|systematize]] its [[ideals]], to adapt [[religious]] [[practices]] to the existing current of life. And all this was enormously helped by [[translation]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_scriptures Hebrew scriptures] into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Greek] and by the later recording of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint New Testament in the Greek tongue].

195:2.8 The [[Greeks]], in [[contrast]] with the [[Jews]] and many other peoples, had long provisionally [[believed]] in [[immortality]], some sort of [[survival]] after [[death]], and since this was the very [[heart]] of [[Jesus]]' teaching, it was certain that [[Christianity]] would make a strong [[appeal]] to them.

195:2.8 The [[Greeks]], in [[contrast]] with the [[Jews]] and many other peoples, had long provisionally [[believed]] in [[immortality]], some sort of [[survival]] after [[death]], and since this was the very [[heart]] of [[Jesus]]' teaching, it was certain that [[Christianity]] would make a strong [[appeal]] to them.